c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport." — Laurent Fabius
"I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all." — Drew Barrymore
"Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car." — Laurence J. Peter
"Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding." — Thomas Carlyle
"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done." — Edward Bond
"I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies." — Nicolas Cage
"I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite - and one of the most capable - choreographers out there right now." — Harry Shum, Jr.
"User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project." — Donald Norman
"When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable." — Rene Descartes
"I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction." — Bob Riley
"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote." — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"No man is ever old enough to know better." — Holbrook Jackson
"Success is the sweetest revenge." — Vanessa Williams
"Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that." — Famke Janssen
"It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true." — Ivor Novello
"Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element." — Gus Van Sant
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." — Thomas Carlyle
"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds." — Niccolo Machiavelli
"I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home." — Yo-Yo Ma
"I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding." — John Lennon
"I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers." — Steve Martin
"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them." — William Shakespeare
"I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore." — Robert Smith
"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car." — Edward de Bono
"Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world." — Mary Garden
"Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction." — Lewis Thomas
"If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term." — Ed Gillespie
"Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals." — John H. Johnson
"It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence." — Jacques Barzun
"And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue." — David Kay
"Trust is the first step to love." — Munshi Premchand
"In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired." — Lee Child
"Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace." — John Boyd Orr
"I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for." — Brittany Murphy
"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace." — Bernard Baruch
"Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust." — Mitchell Reiss
"Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood." — Shia LaBeouf
"I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace." — Francois Rabelais
"I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty." — Brittany Snow
"A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world." — Ibrahim Babangida
"Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful." — Philip K. Dick
"It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race." — Neale Donald Walsch
"Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are." — Sophia Bush
"The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more." — Alexander Pope
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character." — Oliver Joseph Lodge
"Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior." — Julian Assange
"When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith." — Abraham Kuyper
"A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments." — Donny Osmond
"Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits." — William Hazlitt
"Treasure your relationships, not your possessions." — Anthony J. D'Angelo
"I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine." — Hugh Laurie
"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people." — James A. Garfield
"It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical." — Bill Shuster
"Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard." — Warren G. Bennis
"I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that." — Gillian Anderson
"The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony." — V. S. Pritchett
"Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being." — Sargent Shriver
"There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed." — James Larkin
"Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure." — Jack Lemmon
"I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby." — Anne Hathaway
"On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad." — Julian Lennon
"Through travel I first became aware of the outside world it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it." — Eudora Welty
"I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet." — Joely Fisher
"Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser." — John Breaux
"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene." — A. C. Benson
"TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more." — Sharon Stone
"My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship." — Joey Lauren Adams
"I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love." — Charlie Sheen
"Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love." — Nelson Rockefeller
"Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older." — Isaac Hayes
"I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business." — Sydney Pollack
"It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all." — Jane Campion
"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." — Erma Bombeck
"And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion." — Mitt Romney
"I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope." — Joel Schumacher
"It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner." — Jonas Salk
"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?" — Al Boliska
"And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble." — Jason Statham
"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation." — Arthur Conan Doyle
"Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly." — Ryszard Kapuscinski
"Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil." — Daryl Hannah
"This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?" — Jerry Lewis
"Science is the systematic classification of experience." — George Henry Lewes
"I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'" — Donald Trump
"Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it." — Steve King
"As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid." — Irvin S. Cobb
"The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses." — Thomas Jefferson
"Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm." — Kim Cattrall
"Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace." — Frank B. Kellogg
"I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism." — Ed Miliband
"Happiness is no laughing matter." — Richard Whately
"The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't." — John Podhoretz
"It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually." — V. S. Naipaul
"I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World I've been on TV and had three TV series." — R. L. Stine
"This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world." — Roma Downey
"That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing." — Alison Krauss
"I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed." — Jeanette Winterson
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor." — Robert Frost
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." — Marcus Aurelius
"I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first." — Stephen Hawking
"When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating." — Iain Duncan Smith
"Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it." — Lech Walesa
"There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing." — Billy Sunday
"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age." — Margaret Mead
"I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation." — Daniel Radcliffe
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power." — Alfred Lord Tennyson
"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic." — Johan Huizinga
"The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication." — Mike Fitzpatrick
"I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal." — Pedro Martinez
"I'm so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies." — Ashley Tisdale
"I like to do something I fear." — Heath Ledger
"The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files." — Timothy Murphy
"We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society." — Joe Biden
"God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always." — Jill Scott
"I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame." — Anne Lamott
"My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic." — Pauly Shore
"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock." — Pablo Picasso
"Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals." — Donald Rumsfeld
"We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to." — Jerry Lawler
"About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm." — Kurt Vonnegut
"We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation." — Joshua Micah Marshall
"Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops." — Sloane Crosley
"When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith and the universe is built on faith." — Ernest Holmes
"There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do." — Luc de Clapiers
"Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay." — Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty." — David Gower
"They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought." — John Mica
"The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher." — Anne Sullivan Macy
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." — Isaac Asimov
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary." — Robert Louis Stevenson
"I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way." — Michael Ealy
"Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines." — Andrew Weil
"In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job." — Eddie Murphy
"Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality." — William Falconer
"Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient." — Thomas Aquinas
"Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines." — Carl Hiaasen
"People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth." — P. J. O'Rourke
"In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road." — Naveen Jain
"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control." — Robert Foster Bennett
"And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product." — Freddie Mercury
"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another." — Reinhold Niebuhr
"Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down." — Dave Barry
"It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial." — Zoe Saldana
"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched." — Paul Harris
"Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition." — Samuel Pepys
"Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese." — Nick Cannon
"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?" — Virginia Woolf
"In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known." — Thomas Malthus
"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too." — Tom Hanks
"All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions." — John Locke
"I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't." — Thomas Gold
"Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell." — Harlan Coben
"No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined." — Wesley Snipes
"Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school." — Dan Savage
"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged." — Ronald Reagan
"We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun." — William Glasser
"In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers." — Karen Duffy
"I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar." — Demetri Martin
"I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others." — Mahatma Gandhi
"The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her." — Ibrahim Babangida
"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture." — Salvador Dali
"The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me." — Howard Nemerov
"I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either." — Gary Bauer
"There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope." — Gerard Way
"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." — W. C. Fields
"If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough." — Audrey Hepburn
"A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side." — Joseph Addison
"Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom." — Alice Walker
"I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like." — Margaret Mead
"I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth." — Neil Armstrong
"Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something." — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
"Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now." — Denis Waitley
"I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act." — Kevin Bacon
"One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part." — Francois Hollande
"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile." — Goldie Hawn
"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man." — Gordon Ramsay
"God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear." — Ruby Dee
"That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer." — Peter Bichsel
"The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show." — Dale Earnhardt
"I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power." — Paul Wellstone
"A change in bad habits leads to a change in life." — Jenny Craig
"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions." — Arnold H. Glasow
"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff." — Mariah Carey
"There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age." — Benjamin Spock
"Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure." — Greg Bear
"Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry." — Norman Borlaug
"On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians." — Jimmy Carter
"Technology has to be invented or adopted." — Jared Diamond
"A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin." — George Herbert
"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad." — Willie Nelson
"There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking." — Jean de la Bruyere
"If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government." — George Will
"I've played a lot of mothers in my movies." — Vera Farmiga
"Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves." — Herbert Simon
"On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level." — Edward Albert
"I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence." — Vernor Vinge
"What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure." — Aldous Huxley
"Diplomacy: the art of restraining power." — Henry A. Kissinger
"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life." — Arthur Schopenhauer
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America." — Frank Gaffney
"When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'" — Louis C. K.
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." — Colin Powell
"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst." — David Hume
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." — Newt Gingrich
"Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten." — Lewis Mumford
"The best is the enemy of the good." — Voltaire
"I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home." — W. C. Fields
"Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens." — Ari Fleischer
"I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible." — Saint Teresa of Avila
"Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica." — Stephen Leacock
"The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?" — Brendan Francis
"The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player." — Mike Gordon
"I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect." — Julie Andrews
"If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire." — Mason Cooley
"Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries." — Randy Johnson
"Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself." — Lindsay Wagner
"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings." — Socrates
"Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else." — Bob Dylan
"I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year." — Katherine Heigl
"The reward of suffering is experience." — Harry S. Truman
"Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens." — Andy Rooney
"I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church." — Jon Meacham
"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory." — William Hazlitt
"The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it." — Jacques Yves Cousteau
"To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved." — Paul McCartney
"I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy." — Anne Lamott
"Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination." — Barbara Januszkiewicz
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." — Nikos Kazantzakis
"The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained." — Alexis Carrel
"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics." — Thomas Carlyle
"We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements." — Tony Scott
"In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life." — Salvatore Quasimodo
"I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation." — Trevor Dunn
"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music." — Ian MacKaye
"I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture." — Ai Weiwei
"My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'" — Henry Louis Gates
"I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any." — Merton Miller
"That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes." — Denis Waitley
"I guess because it feels more open, but I think being married is way sexier, because it's really like your soul partner in a permanent fashion, and then you strive for it to be something permanent, and that type of commitment and trust, if you can achieve it, is so good for the soul." — Leelee Sobieski
"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past." — Tim Berners-Lee
"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?" — William Shakespeare
"Christmas albums are not something you do frequently." — Isaac Hanson
"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." — Bill Watterson
"I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me." — Lil Wayne
"If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law." — John Boyd Orr
"Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand." — John Ruskin
"We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last." — Muhammad Ali
"I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love." — Michelle Trachtenberg
"What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?" — Paul Ryan
"There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes." — Herbert Simon
"Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams." — W. Somerset Maugham
"A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play." — Jon Meacham
"Kisses are a better fate than wisdom." — e. e. cummings
"A film is a petrified fountain of thought." — Jean Cocteau
"My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad." — Matt Damon
"It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people." — Stevie Nicks
"And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood." — John Sergeant Wise
"I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny." — Teddy Thompson
"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid." — Christopher Hitchens
"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw." — Havelock Ellis
"If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory." — Miguel de Unamuno
"The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman." — Chanakya
"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through." — Paul Valery
"Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row." — Caitlin Rose
"The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly." — Aldous Huxley
"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best." — Thomas Sowell
"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason." — Blaise Pascal
"I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m." — Lena Dunham
"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect." — W. Clement Stone
"When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis." — Roger Federer
"I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire." — David Copperfield
"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self." — Muhammad Iqbal
"I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight." — Madeleine Albright
"Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking." — Josh Radnor
"I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom." — Rashida Jones
"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell." — John Adams
"For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind." — James Rouse
"At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help." — Vinton Cerf
"If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular." — Connie Nielsen
"I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began." — John Henrik Clarke
"God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible." — James Clavell
"First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life." — Oksana Baiul
"I'm a good dad I spend a lot of time with my kids." — Steve Zahn
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston Churchill
"We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us." — Francis John McConnell
"It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror." — Michael Bloomberg
"Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing." — Peter Hammill
"You can't just trust to luck you have to really listen to what that character is telling you." — Estelle Parsons
"The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country." — Jerry Falwell
"A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap." — Mitch Hedberg
"In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour." — Stefan Zweig